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[surrey_sucks]

I'm really thankful that the majority of places I work have a "scent-free" policy for employees, as I'm sensitive to poisons strong scents and perfumes. However, you can't regulate the public. When I'm exposed to strong scents, my face gets a rash, my skin and lips tingle, and sometimes I can taste the chemicals on my tongue. Also, repeated

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[pickleboot]

i do not understand the need for people to drench themselves in perfumes. i have the same reaction as you, but then i get a horrible migraine spike. especially with floral scents, mostly rose. omg, does that drive me crazy. i do wear scents from bpal on occasion, but all of them are ones i have very carefully picked out so that i won't get ill, and i wear a tiny amount. i do have 3 real perfumes that i can wear, but they are horribly expensive and i would never buy them for myself. i do love chanel #5, one that i know the shape of the bottle, and the other i recognize when i see it, but honestly, they are so expensive i can't afford it.

i wish that people who bathe in the stuff could realize how much they stink and the cloud of poison they leave behind them and realize how much it hurts other people.

[surrey_sucks]

I honestly don't know if people seriously don't realize just how much they reek, or if they just don't care. Last year, my sister and I saw a movie, and after the movie, went to the washroom. It was a small washroom, and pretty full, since movies had just let out. Two girls were at the sink, and started spraying themselves (and everyone else) with pefume. WTF?! Are people really that fucking STUPID?!

[pickleboot]

yep, they are that stupid. what i hate are the perfume snipers in department stores(mostly the high end ones now, i think i just see them in the better bloomingdale's, neiman marcus, places like that, but never in nordstrom's, von maur's- who do you think get's me money?) and out in mall kiosks. the other big pains are the lotion people. no, i do not want you to accost me with you disgusting lotion that you have put on dog knows how many people before me! no means no, and if call after me and insult me i am heading straight for the info desk or mall offices to report your ass.

quite a few places here are scent free zones, even public rest rooms. it's one thing i love about nordstroms, or at least the one at the mega mall, the womens rooms are scent free. love that.

[surrey_sucks]

the womens rooms are scent free

That's awesome.

Here in Vancouver, parks, beaches, bus stops, and doorways are supposed to be smoke free. Doesn't mean it happens.

[surrey_sucks]

I'd rather smell BO than strong perfume. While both stink, not both make my face break out and fog my brain up.

[bdellovibrio]

yep (in my case headache and dizziness)! It sucks that the clientele you serve are of that age where they are especially likely to douse themselves in perfume. Whenever I see a youngish done up girl (ie makeup, clothes etc) get on the bus, I cringe and hope they don't sit next too me, 'cause judging on age/appearance, they tend to be the ones drenched in perfume.

[surrey_sucks]

I actually find that it's older people (late 20s and up) who tend to be drenched in perfume. And a certain type of guy.

[surrey_sucks]

Thankfully that has never happened, but I would probably get seriosly ill. I would make it obvious that they stink.

[surrey_sucks]

An anti-histamine would do no good. First, the damage is done; I'm already exposed. And I'm not having a histamine response due to my mast cells releasing histamine and attaching themselves to my IgE cells; I'm reacting to having a poison attacking my body. This is not an "allergy" in the sense of your body being flooded by histamine in response to a harmless allergen (animal hair, dust, etc), but by a dangerous, volatile chemical in the air